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The recent tax reform proposals by the Republican Congress and a recent public Torah reading made me think about tithing. In one of the first verses in Saturday's Torah reading Vayeitzei ((Jacob) departed from …), the Jewish Patriarch Jacob promises G-d a tenth of everything G-d gives him after
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Last month, Donald Trump's local campaign director of Jewish Outreach wrote an op-ed article in the Newton TAB titled "The Choice: Jewish Liberalism or the Jewish State." With Simchat Torah (Rejoicing of the Torah) coming up, I would like to respond by saying the real choice
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Sunday, September 17 marks the 230rd anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution. On September 17, 1787, 39 out of the 55 delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the Constitution of the United States and submitted it to the 13 states to be ratified by each
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In the second reading of this week's Torah Portion (Shoftim, or Judges), G-d anticipates that the Children of Israel will forget G-d many years after settling Eretz Yisrael (D'Varim 17:14-20) and demand a king like all the nations around it. This occurred in Chapter Eight
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Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez's recent statement that every Democrat should be pro-abortion without exception reinforces why I bucked my family's political heritage by registering as a Republican. Perez issued a fatwa declaring that every Democrat should be pro-abortion, no exceptions. He imposed this litmus